According to a Facebook post from the Norwich Police Department, Officers Elizabeth Harsley and Christopher Hawrylik responded to a call involving an emotionally distraught mother. Once the officers arrived to the scene they realized the mother was having an extremely stressful day because she could not afford her a cake for her daughter's birthday.

Harsley and Hawrylik used their own money to purchase a cake for the mother so she and her daughter could "enjoy her birthday together."

"Chief Fusaro and the Norwich Police Department are proud to have officers like Officer Hawrylik and Harsley who perform their duties faithfully and routinely go above and beyond the call of duty to serve the citizens of Norwich with compassion and concern," the department's Facebook read, praising the two officers.